discussion Want to fly a Spitfire?

[flyjoe180]

And if the 262 is your thing (as it is mine) then this short clip at 1:23 is always worth a gander.(I get the chills when listening to the pilot and gunners on the radio)

The B-17 footage and early radio commentary is from the original wartime Memphis Belle film. The fighters attacking in the real film were fast and frightening enough, a 262 would have been terrifyingly quick.

 

[Guest]

I think the clip does its job for only being less than 1.5 minutes in length. I have read a lot of books and articles and have flyable models in my simulator on the 262, and I imagine things would have sounded much as they are presented here. They aren't my movies, simply ones i have stumbled across in my lust for war knowledge and I put them up here, where they would (most likely) have an appreciative crowd.

Part of me says "we should view these things and remember." Remember that they were horrible. That the war (I don't call it world war 2 any more, as much as it's world war 1, part 2.) made a lot of good people do a lot of very bad things, and we should never wish to let things get that far out of hand again.

Part of me says "wars are better left in the past because of that nastiness" It's a hard line to follow sometimes.